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Finneytown Local Schools Promotes Long-time Elementary Teacher to Teaching and Learning Coordinator

For 23 years, Troy Edie has been an educator in the Finneytown Local School District. This summer, he was promoted into the position of Teaching and Learning Coordinator for the district, a role he’s been preparing for his whole career.  As a graduate of The Ohio State University with both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Elementary Education, Edie has been teaching in Finneytown his entire career since being hired to teach 2nd grade in 1996.  Since then he has …

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FT forun & BOE mtg 6/25

Finneytown Forum Meeting 6/25

Join us for a Finneytown Forum and Special Board of Education meeting on new buildings! Tuesday, June 25th at 6:30 pm in the Performing Arts Center, 8916 Fontainebleau Terrace We will be updating on the flurry of activity happening at Finneytown Local Schools, and what a bond levy will mean for you and your families. Learn more about the special opportunity that we have available to us and how the state is going to pay 60% of the base cost …

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Finneytown Local Schools to Place Bond Levy on November Ballot

Watch the video On Sunday, June 9, 2019, Finneytown Local Schools Board of Education unanimously voted to move forward in the application process with Ohio Facilities Construction Commission and the Expedited Local Partnership Program that would assist the district in designing and building two new school buildings. The board voted this evening, Monday, June 17, 2019, to place a bond levy on the November 2019 ballot that would supply the money for 40% of the cost to construct the schools. …

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COSI on Wheels Takes Learning at Whitaker Elementary to a New Level

It’s Simply Chemistry! The was the COSI (Center of Science and Industry) on Wheels Outreach Program that students at Whitaker Elementary School experienced in May. The COSI educator presented the Chemistry Program to students in grades 2-5. Students then had the opportunity to have some hands-on learning as they visited the stations that made slime, experimented with Ph levels using different chemicals, compared the textures of everyday household chemicals under microscopes, experienced first-hand the differences when you have physical and …

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EZ Pay Deadline June 5

The last day for students and families to pay their lunch fees through the EZ PAY website is June 5. If you must pay on or after that date, all payments will be handled through the Finneytown Treasurer’s Office. For More information or to log-in to EZ PAY, you may visit the Parent Portal page of the website and look under Food Service.

Ohio PTA Reflections State Winners

Three Finneytown students represented Finneytown Local Schools at the Ohio PTA Convention, for the PTA Reflections Awards Luncheon. Ava Weaver (7th grade) won the Award of Excellence in Photography for State of Ohio-Middle School. Biwas Moktan (4th gr) won OPTA Award of Outstanding Achievement for his photograph titled “My Grandfather”. Robert-Thomas DeNike ( 9th gr) won OPTA Award of Merit for his Superhero Abstract. All of the pieces that won state awards will continue on to Nationals. This is a …

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